Historia del imperio azteco : continuada hasta el año de 1607; documento pictográfico con texto en lengua nahuatl.
- Publication:
- [New York], 1873.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
16 leaves : paper ; 206 x 125 mm bound to 212 x 135 mm - Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 199
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k35mq21 - Status/Location:
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- Standardized Title:
- Codex Aubin.
- Subjects:
- Nahuatl language -- Texts.
Nahuatl language.
Language and languages.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages.
Mexico.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Mexico -- History -- To 1519.
History.
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. - Form/Genre:
- Texts.
Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Mexican.
Manuscripts, Spanish. - Language:
- Nahuatl, with title page and note on verso of title page in Spanish.
- Summary:
- A facsimile copy by C. Hermann Berendt of a selection from the Codex Aubin, a history in Nahuatl text and pictures of Aztec history up to 1607. Later annotations in pencil assign dates ranging from 1299 to 1607 to the events in the manuscript.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r); Berendt gives the first words of the source manuscript as Nican ycuiliuh tican ynin xitla (f. 3v).
Pagination: Paper, 16; [vi, 1], 2-19, [vii], followed by 18 blank leaves of a different paper; page numbers in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Copied in New York in 1873. - Penn Provenance:
- Copied from a copy made by or for E. G. Squier (1821-1888) from the original then in the collection of J. M. A. Aubin (f. 3v), now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page). - Cited in:
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 275 (no. 3058).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 199
- Contributor:
- Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner. - OCLC:
- 155932887